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In this issue, the editor will bring you about how to analyze and discuss the future commercialization of Filecoin. The article is rich in content and analyzes and narrates it from a professional point of view. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

At present, Filecoin is in a state of steady increase in computing power and incubation of ecological applications, and there is a steady stream of miners to join in. Filecoin computing power has entered the era of 3EB to prove its vigorous development. Any landing project is inseparable from the road of commercialization. Today, I will talk to you about how to take the road of commercialization of Filecoin.

The significance of the birth of Filecoin

First of all, we have to understand why Filecoin was born. We all know that Filecoin uses distributed storage technology. In fact, distributed storage technology is forced to come into being with the rapid development of the Internet and the geometric growth of application data, because the traditional centralized storage has been unable to meet the needs of large-scale data storage. In addition, distributed storage has many advantages, such as low hardware cost, performance, maintenance and disaster tolerance.

In fact, before Filecoin, distributed storage technology has already emerged, such as Aliyun, Amazon and other cloud storage service providers also use distributed storage technology in some storage servers.

So is there any difference between Filecoin's distribution and Amazon's distribution? In essence, there is little difference, the only difference is that Amazon's distributed storage final data is still stored in the centralized server, the data management is also centralized, and the network operation mode is also centralized. Its essence is the central word, no matter what technology can not avoid the fact of centralization. Filecoin adopts a decentralized business model, which is essentially different from the traditional centralized storage in terms of business model.

The Filecoin network achieves a decentralized business model through the setting of the mechanism, and Filecoin has established a free market in the upstream and downstream markets of the storage market, and there is no central organizational intervention in the market.

Who has a need for Filecoin?

From a business point of view, whether a business model can work or not, the most important thing is to solve some specific business needs. Consumers will choose who solves the problem of demand. For Filecoin, where is the potential demand for Filecoin? In the report "Data Age 2025", IDC predicts that global data will grow rapidly from 33ZB to 175ZB from 2018 to 2025. In 2019, the cloud storage industry was worth more than $46 billion, while CDN services (content delivery networks) were worth more than $12 billion.

From the consumer's point of view, these customers are often enterprise users, and the most important indicator for data storage is not performance. The first and most important thing is security. For any stored data, data loss is catastrophic. Then there is cost, and finally speed.

From the description of the above problems, we know that Filecoin may face the following types of customers.

Small and medium-sized enterprises with a large demand for cold data storage

The so-called cold data is the data that is rarely used but needs to be stored for a long time to produce value. These data will not produce any value to the enterprise in the short term, but they can't be discarded casually. However, the traditional centralized storage needs to do multiple storage backups, which is expensive.

But why small and medium-sized enterprises? First of all, small businesses are more sensitive to costs and more flexible, while large enterprises are more sensitive to companies with legal risks such as Filecoin.

Grey data

This kind of demand exists all the time, such as BT download, electric donkey, Pirate Bay and so on many years ago, they all download whatever they want nearby, both in terms of speed and clarity, which are better than the traditional centralized HTTP protocol. But it all came to nothing in the end.

For Filecoin, there are the same risks, and from a technical point of view, distributed networks reduce the attack surface of censorship. Compared with HTTP protocol, IPFS achieves permanent storage and untamper deletion of information as well as resource sharing.

All DAPP and blockchain projects touted as decentralized

These will be the main sites for Filecoin, because many of the so-called decentralized data are stored in centralized servers, and the emergence of Filecoin makes their "decentralization" more worthy of the name.

Start-ups or individuals with small high-frequency storage needs

Although Filecoin is currently limited to TPS performance to meet the needs of high throughput, but in relative cases, for small storage needs, the bandwidth of Filecoin is fully met. In addition, due to the principle of Filecoin downloading nearby, it has a certain advantage in transmission speed.

In addition, for the data storage market of Filecoin, many miners compete for the storage needs of customers, which is a fully competitive free market, which is beneficial to customers.

The potential of Filecoin's future development

Self-growth system: under the operation of various mechanisms officially designed, Filecoin enters a cycle of benign development, and the more nodes involved in it, the more beneficial it is for Filecoin.

Higher security and data permissions: the file is encrypted with a private key, people without a private key cannot use the file, and the file is fragmented and saved in multiple nodes, preventing the inaccessible problem caused by a single point of failure.

Efficient: IPFS's unique hashing algorithm removes duplicate files from the network, and Filecoin ensures the speed and convenience of the network while ensuring redundancy.

Dapp market: this is the main station for Filecoin in the future, because Filecoin is currently the only storage network that can decentralized storage data, and Filecoin will be the preferred object of choice for these DAPP. In the future, the development of these DAPP will greatly promote the rise of Filecoin.

IPFS/Filecoin will be a development direction of the data storage market in the future. Whether you are optimistic about it or not, it has become an irresistible trend of exploration and a rising road of commercialization.

The above is the editor for you to share how to analyze and discuss the future commercialization of Filecoin, if you happen to have similar doubts, you might as well refer to the above analysis to understand. If you want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel.

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